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“What would happen if Doctor Who tried its hand at a Black Mirror episode,” seems like it could have easily been the pitch for “Dot and Bubble,” this week’s Who installment that certainly seemed to pull from the Black Mirror universe in its basic structure – including that gut-punch of a final sequence. And while […]
Star Wars: The Bad Batch is an action-adventure sci-fi animated series created by Dave Filoni. He is the creator of Star Wars Resistance and Star Wars Rebels, and supervising director of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: Tales. For over eight years, Filoni has headed Lucasfilm Animation, which has produced all Star Wars-related animated series […]
One of the hallmarks of a great episode of TV is that it can take you through a gamut of emotions throughout its journey to the end. And that’s precisely what “73 Yards” did, as we walked along with Ruby as she not only attempted to solve the question of just who the woman following […]
Cherry Magic!, also known as Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, is a comedic boy’s love series, adapted from a manga of the same name by Yuu Toyota. There were previously TV drama and film adaptations. The anime is directed by Yoshiko Okuda and written by Tomoko Konparu. Tomoki Hasegawa […]
Well, that was quite the episode of Doctor Who. We got a treatise on the horrors of unchecked capitalism (timely, as always), a quick swipe toward militant religiosity (although having the military consist of various Anglican clerics of differing ranks didn’t really have enough time to gel into a statement of sorts – although, you […]
About midway through the second episode of The Big Cigar, the latest AppleTV+ series, I found myself wondering just why this particular story hadn’t been made into a movie instead of an over-long and wholly unnecessary six-episode limited series. And when I dug a little bit, I discovered that in fact, it was originally optioned […]
If my glowing review of the Doctor Who Christmas special back in December was any indication, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the official start of the latest season of Who for a couple of months now. I’ve been a fan of Ncuti Gatwa’s for a bit now, and his take on the Fifteenth Doctor has, so […]
Dark Matter, the new AppleTV+ series adapted from Blake Crouch’s novel of the same name (largely by the author, who holds writing or joint writing credits on most of the season’s episodes), is a story about the multiverse – something I wanted to get out there at the top of this review, because I know […]
The one positive thing about coming a bit late to a series – in this case, a week after it was released – is that you get to watch how the discourse surrounding the series starts to shape up. First, there’s usually the breathless questions around your social circle: “Have you watched it? What did […]
Metallic Rouge, also known as Metarikku Rūju, is an original mecha anime series. It is produced by Bones, for the studio’s 25th anniversary, an animation company known for Ouran High School Host Club, Gosick, Space Dandy, and Carole & Tuesday. Motonobu Hori directed the series. Supervising director Yutaku Izubuchi assisted him in series composition. Toshizo […]